The Sinfonietta Riga is a new and vibrant young orchestra. With an average age of 27, they're on a mission to bring youth and vitality to everything they play. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll go to their hometown of Riga, Latvia to hear them perform Josef Haydn's Symphony No. 85 in concert.
On this weekend's Performance Today, composer Bruce Adolphe joins us with our weekly musical game. Play along; see if you can name the hidden tune and the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking. Plus, we'll hear musical highlights from concert halls from Los Angeles to Hamburg.
English composer Thomas Ades is a huge fan of Francois Couperin's 18th century keyboard music. So much so, he rewrote three of the French composer's pieces for orchestra. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear conductor Jeffrey Kahane lead the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Ades's "Three Studies from Couperin."
Olga Kern was 26 when she won the Cliburn Piano Competition. Thirteen years later, her musical voice has matured and she is a piano powerhouse. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear Olga Kern in concert playing a set of variations by Clara Schumann.
On Wednesday's Performance Today, composer Bruce Adolphe joins us with our weekly musical game. Play along; see if you can name the hidden tune and the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking. Plus, we'll hear musical highlights from concert halls from Los Angeles to Hamburg.
Classical music is meant to be played and heard in concert, and today's concert scene is bursting with creativity and vitality and talent. On Tuesday's Performance Today, join us for two hours of highlights from recent concerts from across the country and around the world.
Physics can make it tough to play an organ with an orchestra. If the organ pipes are 200 feet from the conductor, it can take their sound a quarter second to cover that distance; enough to potentially disrupt a performance. On Monday's Performance Today, the New York Philharmonic tackles the physics of Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony in concert in New York.
Every week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a classical composer. Play along on this weekend's Performance Today; see if you can guess the tune and the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking.
Mozart wrote hundreds of pieces that are delightful and charming, but several dozen of his works are so expressive, so riveting, that they're masterpieces. On Friday's Performance Today we'll hear one such masterpiece: Mozart's Symphony No. 39.
